Tad Barrows grew up on the East Side of Providence and remembers
vividly being given a hockey stick by his idol, Curt Bennett '70.
He says he couldn't have dreamed that someday he would be joining
that towering figure of Bruin sports legends in the Brown Hall of
Fame. But then he also probably didn't envision a college lacrosse
career as stellar as his turned out to be. Barrows was among a
group of standouts playing lacrosse at Brown in the late 1970's and
early 1980's, among them Mark Farnham, Rick Handelman '80, and Jeff
Hacker '81. He joined Farnham in being named second team
All-American in his senior year, when he was an attackman, and an
honorable-mention All-American in his junior year, playing at
midfield. Barrows came within one goal of equaling the Brown record
held by Tom Draper and Bob Scalise when he scored 46 goals in his
senior year. That year he was also named Ivy Player of the year,
and made both the All-Ivy and the All-New England squads for the
second year. He was chosen for the North-South All-Star Game that
spring, post-season, and scored a goal in the North's 7-6 overtime
win. Barrows is especially pleased to be joining his
great-grandfather, Edward H. Weeks, class of 1893, in the Hall of
Fame. Barrows is living in Providence and works as a commercial
real estate broker with Horizon Property Company.